The way that Biolife treated me, as a donor, during my years of struggle with the visual (diagnosed by an optometrist) diagnosis of Convergence Insufficiency (CI) was very poor, so poor that I am having to quit donating plasma until my CI has improved considerably through vision therapy. I had told the medical supervisors at Biolife repeatedly that I have been diagnosed with CI, and yet they kept triggering the headaches and vertigo that naturally come about because of my CI by having me read stuff like those mandatory lists of questions and sometimes forms and whatnot, and then deferring me for having the headaches and vertigo that I get from CI whenever I read or write, and calling them "donation reactions." (They are NOT donation reactions! This is what CI naturally does when I am made to read and write! If the medical supervisors had done some basic online research, they would have known about this and would have simply read the questions and forms to me.) And now, although I had told them for years that I have this diagnosis, they are treating it like it is a "new" diagnosis that I had never told them about before, and they claim that they are having to do this due to their policy and FDA regulations. If you are an adult with severe CI, stay *far away* from this place until it improves enough that reading and writing don't make you sick! Believe me, Biolife will be less than understanding! Sure, you can make $200 a month or whatever by donating, but what good is this if you risk being permanently deferred because of your CI issues? Biolife might be OK for people who don't have CI, however. Just beware.
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